Bio
Ashley Gorski is a Senior Staff Attorney in the ACLU's National Security Project. She is a graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School. Prior to joining the ACLU, Ms. Gorski worked at a New York law firm and served as a law clerk to the Hon. Jon O. Newman, United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, and to the Hon. Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum, United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York.
Featured work
![Surveillance cameras on a street pole.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2021/09/Regular-Surveillance-400x266.jpg)
Sep 7, 2021
The Privacy Lesson of 9/11: Mass Surveillance is Not the Way Forward
![An FBI agent reads through documents.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2021/04/WEB21-FBI-Agents-Computers-WordPress-1110x740-1-400x266.jpg)
Apr 2, 2021
A Chinese American Scientist and His Family Are Battling the FBI’s Profiling in Court
![A face recognition camera with a CBP agent in the background.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/12/WEB20-CBP-Airport-Face-Recognition-WordPress-1110x740-1-400x266.jpg)
Dec 21, 2020
CBP’s Plan to Expand Face Surveillance at Airports is a Civil Liberties Disaster in the Making
![WeChat app shown on iPhone screen.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/12/WeChat-First-Amendment-Header-Image-400x266.jpg)
Dec 7, 2020
The First Amendment Fight Against the WeChat Ban
![A passenger using a facial recognition kiosk in the background with a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer watching in the foreground.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/02/WEB20-Airport-Facial-Recognition-Kiosk-WordPress-1110x740-400x266.jpg)
Mar 12, 2020
The Government Has a Secret Plan to Track Everyone’s Faces at Airports. We’re Suing.
![The Department of Justice building in Washington, DC.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/02/web20-DOJsign-blogimage-wordpress-1110x740-400x266.jpg)
Feb 5, 2020
The Government is Using its Foreign Intelligence Spying Powers for Routine Domestic Investigations
![William Barr](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web18-williambarr-1160x768_0-400x266.jpg)
Jun 3, 2019
The Hypocrisy of William Barr's Spying Claims
![William Barr](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web19-williambarr4-1160x768-400x266.jpg)
May 10, 2019
The Mueller Report Isn’t The Only Thing That William Barr Is Hiding
![NSA Building at night](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web17-nsanight-1160x768-400x266.png)
Dec 3, 2018
The Government Is Trying to Keep Key NSA Spying Rules Secret